To setup and switch to a new series in overly complicated, time consuming, and labor intensive, especially for project groups.
Today I have to do the following:
For every product in a product group,
1) navigate to the product
2) click register a new series
3) complete the new series information including setting the new series' status
4) click add milestone
5) complete the new milestone information including setting a date
6) press the back button on the browser twice to be able to click add milestone
7) click add new milestone for my next milestone
8) repeat steps 5-8 for each new milestone I want
9) click on the breadcrumbs bar to go back to the main product page
10) click on edit a project
11) scroll 3/4 of the way down the page and set the active series to the new series previously created
12) click on the breadcrumbs bar to go back to the main product page
13) click on the previous series
14) click on change details
15) change the development status to something other than active (e.g. obsolete or supported)
16) click on the breadcrumbs bar to go back to the main product page
17) verify the work is complete
18) Iterate to next product in the project group
This is painful. Could a wizard be added to automate at least a portion of this? Even one page which would let me create several milestones at once would save me lots of time.
This is an interesting description of many separate bugs. I don't think it's specific to project groups, though. Indeed, I think it's Invalid for project groups, because I think it's extremely uncommon for all the projects in a project group to have the same series at the same time. The closest example I can think of is Gnome, where most projects switch to a new series at *roughly* the same time, but not exactly, and even there some projects maintain a separate versioning system.
Steps 1 and 18 are because Launchpad is abusing a project group for a single project. This in turn is because Launchpad lacks the necessary search and tagging features to handle Launchpad's large number of bugs. Solution: Fix the search- and tag-related bugs, then merge the launchpad-project projects into a single project. I think if we try to fix this any other way, we'll make Launchpad more confusing for every other project group. (Not to mention QA being unnnecessarily difficult in Ubuntu and every other project, because of the continuing weakness of search and tags.)
Step 3: When registering a series on launchpad.dev, I don't see anywhere that I need to set "the new series' status". Did you mean Summary, or something else? I've reported bug 253393 on the Summary being compulsory.
... That's all I have time for at the moment. I'll look at the other steps later.